Cameroon GCE O Level English Language syllabus 2021-2022

 SYLLABUS GUIDELINES

 1. LISTENING COMPREHENSION

Candidates will be required to:

• discriminate sounds in connected speech.
• discriminate stress pattern in connected speech.
• listen for main points.
• listen for detail and implied meaning.
• listen for general and specific information.
• listen and differentiate between relevant and irrelevant information.
• listen and identify people’s points of view in a conversation, debate or textual material.
• listen and infer meaning from context.
• listen to a dialogue or conversation and identify a problem.
• listen and identify the purpose of a text
• listen and identify relevant facts from a text.
• listen and recognize a range of spoken text types and speech situations such as a story, talk, conversation, debate, interview and respond appropriately.
• listen and provide a suitable title or conclusion.
• listen and identify characters, settings etc.
• listen and pick out clues about the speaker’s mood (s).
• listen to a debate and select the points.
• listen and distinguished between formal/informal speech register.
• listen and interpret attitudinal meaning.
• listen and recognize indicators in discourse, such as illustration, enumeration and contrast. (e.g. addition, sequence, cause and effect, introducing a new idea, transition to another idea, emphasizing, explanation or clarification of an idea and point already made).
• listen for signal words (for:
  • illustration, for example, N.B., i.e., e.g. etc.
  • conclusion, e.g. therefore, finally, in conclusion.
  • enumeration, e.g. firstly, secondly, next, etc.
  • contrast, e.g. on the contrary, but, however, etc.)